Keep It Short and Simple (KISS)

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Apr 14

I received an email with the subject line, ‘Please Note – Meeting Advanced to 3 pm-NRE’

I got the message right and reached the meeting venue at 02.50 pm. But, for the life of me, I was baffled with ‘NRE’. After the meeting, I met the person who wrote this subject line and asked what it meant. Here is the answer. It means, ‘No Response Expected’.

Are you using abbreviations that don’t make sense to others? A good practice is to give the expansion the first time so that people understand what you mean.

Interestingly, there are a few abbreviations that can be used in subject lines. The first is of course ‘NRE’ at the end of the subject line to mean, ‘please don’t bother responding to this email’. It is only information and needs no acknowledgement.